Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-06-11

War chariots we're in vogue, and they
were on two wheels SO they could cas-
ily turn. A sword was fastened TO the
| pole between the horses, SO that when
they went ahead the sword thrust and
when they turned around it would
NOW down. The armies carried flags
beautifully embroidered. The tribe
of Judah carried a flag embroidered
with a lion; the tribe of Reuben, en-
broidered with a man; the tribe of
| Dan, embroidered with a cherubim.
The noise of the host as they moved
on was overwhelming. What with the
| CHATTER of shields and the rumbling of
| wheels and the shouts of the captains
and the vociferation of the entire host,
the prophet says it was like the roar
ing of the sea. Because the arts of
war have been advancing all these
years you are not to conclude that
these armies were an uncomfortable
mob. / could quote you four or five
passages of Scripture showing you that
they were
THOROUGHLY DRILLED.
They marched step to step, shoulder
! ~ SuouIhCl, VI dS III lSAe CAPhOEp -
they were 'fifty thousand which could
keep rank" and 'every one could sling
stones at a hair-breadth and no miss"
Nothing could be more important
than this great National encampment.
Cndrilled troops can nev stand before
| those which are drilled. At a time
when other nations are giving such
care to military tactics, it behooves
this nation TO lack nothing in skill.
We shall never have another war be-
tween north and south. The old de-
cayed bone of contention, American
slavery, has been east out, although
here and there Il depravcd politician
takes it up to see if he can gnaw some
thing out Of it. We are floating off
further and further from the POSSIBLE
ty of sectional strife, but about
FOREIGN INVASION
| am not so sure. There is absolutely
no room on this continent for any
other nation. l have been across the
country again and again and / know
that we have not n half inch of ground
! for the equity foot Of foreign despotism
I to stand on. | do not know out that q
half dozen nations envious of orr pros.
perity may want to give us a wrestle,
> During the civil war there were two OIL
d three nations that could hardly keeE
G their hands off of us. 1t is very easy
to pick national quarrels, and if oul
nation escapes it much longer 1t viii
: be the exception. If a foreign fot
II should come we want men like those o
n 1912, and like those who fought OF
g both sides in 1862. We want them al
:, up and down the coast, Pulaski ant
Fort Sumter in the same chorus o
|. thunder as Fort Lafayette and For
a Hamilton, men who will not only know
h how to fight but how to die. Whel
20 such a time comes, if it ever doe
come. the generations on the stake Q
action will say: My country Wi,
care for my family as they did in tn
ne soldiers asylums for the orphans i
N the civil war, and my country wi
honor my dust as it honors those VIII
- preceded me in patriotic sacrifice, an
he once a year at any rate On Decoratio
a day, l shall be resurrected into tn
10 remembrance of those for whom
died. Here | 90 for God and my cour
" try" If foreign foe should ever com
{; all
a SECTIONAL ANIMOsITIES
Would be obliterated. Here 60 OF
Id our regiments into the battle, side b
r; side, Fifteenth New York Volunteer
of Tenth Alabama Cavalry, Fourteent
r. Pennsylvania Rifiemen, Tenth Ma
In sachusetts Artillery, Seventh Sout
Carolina Sharp Shooters. | have n
faith in the cry: mo North. II
IS, South, no East, no West" Let a
four sections keep their peculiaritit
It. and their preferences, each doing il
own work and not interfering wit
r, each other, each of the four carryin
as its partin the great harmony-the bas
y, the alto, the tenor, the soprano in IL
grand march of the Union.
as l congratulate you. the officers an
Is, soldiers of this national encampmcn
n that if a foreign attack should at an
ge time be made you would be ready, an
he there would be millions of the drille
W. men of north and south, like the me
de of my first text, which could keep ranl
and like the men of my second tex
It. that would not miss a hair-breadth.
~ At this national drill, when thirt,
I'll one states of the Union are represen
k ed, and between the decorations of ii
e; graves Of the southern dead, which too
IS place a few days ago, and the decor;
is tons of the graves of the norther
IS dead, which shall take place tO-mol
le row, l would stir the
Of CHRISTIAN PATRIOTISM
l. And gratitude not only Of this soldier
g here present. but of all the people, b
putting before them the difference bt
$, tween these times, when the soldiers {
all sections meet in peace, and til
times when they met in contest. Coz
I'd trast the feeling of sectional bitterness
ID in 1862 with the feeling of section;
% unity in 1887. At the first date tn
south had banished the national al
ID The Star ~Spangled Banner" and til
at north had banished the popular air {
at Way Down South in Dixie" I'll
m northern people were .'mudsills" an
is the southern people were .'whi'